Saturday, March 26, 2005

At the Cape

Posted by Peter

How the time flies! Only a month to go and so much left to do.One more day at the Cape, we head home tomorrow.Only got to ride our bikes once, what with the wind, rain, snow and cold weather.On that ride, one of my pedals came off, stripping the thread on the crank.At least I got eleven miles in on the beautiful Cape Cod Rail Trail, the parts that weren’t snow covered that is.Well I’m glad that the problem showed up now and not on the trip.There’s also a little glitch with the panniers that we have to fix, nothing insurmountable.They came with a metal ring attached to a spring to loop onto the bike frame at the bottom to hold them in place.It’s much too tight, so Rick (our bike dealer) put s hooks on the ends. They extend things just enough, but they fall off. We just need to attach new ones and crimp the end attached to the rings to hold them in place.

We’re behind on a bunch of things because our cash wasn’t flowing properly for a bit.Lots of things need to be ordered quickly now. Plus we need to learn to use them!So many things to do before we leave that our “to do” lists are works of art.In fact, Faith has written a database program to house them. Complete with personalized reports.Speaking of computers, it looks like we will be taking faith’s personal laptop instead of the lightweight one that her son was going to set up for us. Seems that one doesn’t have enough horsepower for some of the apps we run. Hers is a bit of a brick, but we’ll have to manage.I’ll be loading some of my software on it too.Just managing our finances for the time we’ll be away is a bit of a challenge, but it’s coming together finally. (I think I was avoiding tackling that problem for a while.)